Excerpt from Tight Area Bounds and Provably Good At2 Bounds for Sorting Circuits This paper gives tight upper and lower bounds for the minimum area required to sort n k-bit numbers in a digital medium, when the inputs can be replicated up to rsn times. We also give provably good A12 bounds for vlsi sorting circuits that read their inputs once. Our lower bounds result from a coherent theory that captures the intrinsic complexity in both A and at2 measures for sorting circuits. Among other results, we prove. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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